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Re: What food do you crave a lot but is hardest to get where you live?

Originally Posted by jv2.0

I'm assuming you mean what food do I crave that might be in other countries or cities but honestly... I just crave this Mediterranean place down by the university that has the most amazing hummus and greek food. It's pretty far from where I live so I don't get to go as often as I'd like. I suppose if I lived right by the place I'd be broke.

Re: What food do you crave a lot but is hardest to get where you live?

碎牛粥 fine minced beef congee

There's a place in HK which I always go to to get some and I think is better than all the other places I've tried it. Can't find it here in the UK, and I don't have a mincer that outputs mince as fine as vermicelli.

Re: What food do you crave a lot but is hardest to get where you live?

Originally Posted by loveguys72

For example?

I think honest to goodness good "American" buffets you can find in places like Vegas or the midwest are rare to nonexistent in LA... we have crap like Hometown Buffet which is just awful to me. Our Southern style places also pretty much always = "BBQ and pulled pork" without any of the other stuff. Hmm let's see. Oh yeah. NO TRUE DEEP DISH PIZZA. Anywhere. I've looked. I've tried. I've consulted with yelpers. They all say there was one really good place in Griffith Park and it closed down and that it just doesn't do well in the LA area because of the health consciousness. Granted deep dish isn't something I'd want to be eating once a week but I do get a really strong craving for it here and there and so many people don't know what real deep dish is from So Cal... they say stuff like "oh can't you get that at Dominoes" and I'm like are you kidding me?

Re: What food do you crave a lot but is hardest to get where you live?

Originally Posted by medic1

Great question--for me it is really great Sushi made by a Master , yep there are sushi bars in Edinburgh but they are all very much
alike when it comes down to the menu . .

Probably the hardest thing for me when travelling outside of California and outside of the U.S. both is that Japanese food = sushi 90% of the time. Sushi is so overdone in the non Japanese world. It's like a business dinner or New Year's thing in Japan. There's so much more Japanese cuisine than just sushi. Plus like you say, lots of what you can get isn't that great. Even here it's rather shocking how many sushi places have a Mexican or Korean "sushi chef."

Re: What food do you crave a lot but is hardest to get where you live?

Freshly cut up and wrapped durian. You can indeed buy whole durians here, but I like them opened for me, and a few of the pods wrapped in some form of cling wrap to preserve their freshness. I've only seen this in SE Asia.

-T.

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Re: What food do you crave a lot but is hardest to get where you live?

The best Indian food I've had in restaurants in the States would be unremarkable in India. I crave all the homey stuff and the local-style restaurants. Vaguely, Bengali most, then southern variety, then Mughlai. Sigh.

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The worst thing...is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments. As terrible as these catastrophes would be for us, they can be repaired in a few generations. The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.--e.o. wilson

Re: What food do you crave a lot but is hardest to get where you live?

Ever since my Chinese hag moved to PA, she used cook and sometimes take me out to Chinatown to get some legit (she's fluent in Cantonese so she could order off the "real" menu) Chinese food. Now, it's bastardized American Chinese food for me which okay but very inauthentic.

Re: What food do you crave a lot but is hardest to get where you live?

Originally Posted by jensu846

Wendys. its about 55 miles from me, and I always see ads on TV for it. drives me nuts. We have 3 subways and 2 Burger Kings in my town, but no damn Wendys. wtf?

Where I live, it's the same way with Sonic. I see ads for them all the time and while we hardly need another fast food place the drinks look cool. But whatever Sonics there are in LA, are nowhere near me. Never seen one. See the commercials though!

Originally Posted by RazorzEdge88

Ever since I moved out to the middle of the sticks--where the hell do I start??

Good sushi for one. The rainbow cookies from Wegmans. A proper burger and shake from a place like BGR.

What's BGR?

Originally Posted by ronboy

Believe it or not, Dairy Queen.....

Until about 6 months ago, we didn't have one in the Rochester area since the 1960s.

When I was a child, there was a Dairy Queen (ice cream only) in the parking lot of the Lyell-Mt. Read Plaza.

About 1970, it was sold to another local legend, Abbott's Frozen Custard.

The only time I ever got Dairy Queen ice cream or hamburgers was when my family went on vacation to other places.

Now, they have opened a DQ Sizzler in the suburb of Henrietta. Damn, it is good (and quite cheap too!) We are supposed to get another DQ Sizzler in the town of Greece.

Another restaurant I often crave is A&W.

Again, none in greater Rochester.

I loved going to them in the Adirondacks, Ohio, and even in Canada!

I hear you. I had A&W while in Canada (I know it's in the midwest too because my relatives had mentioned it) and we don't have it here at all either, that I'm aware of anyway. It's really good, I can see why you crave it.

Originally Posted by Ram

But the pamphlet said "authentic Mexican food". It's our fault for trusting the jpeg image of a sombrero and maracas on the menu.

Re: What food do you crave a lot but is hardest to get where you live?

jerk pork. for some reason, none of the jamaican restaurants serve it over here or for that matter, the tri state area. not even in brooklyn. don't know why that is especially when they serve jerk chicken.

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Re: What food do you crave a lot but is hardest to get where you live?

Any Indian restaurant food - the closest is, I believe, 70 miles away. It's more than 250 miles to the REALLY good ones on Devon Avenue in Chicago, or 103 miles to a pretty good one in Fairfield, Iowa. There are probably other good ones I don't know about (Quad Cities, for example, 80 miles from here and I know almost NOTHING about what's there).

Old-fashioned fried/homemade chicken.

Genuine chicken fried steak.

The breadsticks from a Middle Eastern grocery store in ANN ARBOR, Michigan. For that matter, the "sesame crunch" which is another Middle Eastern staple, but cannot be bought close to here at all. Sesame crunch is pretty common (at Middle Eastern stores), but the breadsticks are a particular brand I've never seen elsewhere.

PARADIGM Deep Dark HAUTE FUGDE topping. (Made in Portland, and not sold outside the far Northwest. ALL chocolate toppings available in Macomb are pure crap full of HFCS and other garbage, and taste like crap.) At least they answered my email today and told me that I can have it shipped in.

"Dulce de Leche" style [Argentina] caramel sauce. It tastes much better than any caramel you can buy that's American, and the ingredients are wholesome. American caramel is made out of such garbage that mixing poop into it would probably improve it.

Some Korean junk snack food that I found in Dallas a couple years ago...I wish I had saved the wrapper because now I don't even remember what I need to look for.

Lake perch or walleye. (Cold water lake fish which aren't available this side of Chicago, 250 miles from here.)

Shopping at Zupan's in Portland.

I could go on...

Last edited by frankfrank; December 31st, 2012 at 02:15 PM.

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Re: What food do you crave a lot but is hardest to get where you live?

Originally Posted by frankfrank

"Dulce de Leche" style [Argentina] caramel sauce. It tastes much better than any caramel you can buy that's American, and the ingredients are wholesome. American caramel is made out of such garbage that mixing poop into it would probably improve it.

The worst thing...is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments. As terrible as these catastrophes would be for us, they can be repaired in a few generations. The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.--e.o. wilson

Re: What food do you crave a lot but is hardest to get where you live?

Good chicken.. we don't have KFC in my country, and I've heard good things about Nando's too.. but needless to say, we don't have that either Oh, and it's not food.. but I do wish we had Starbucks here. I hate my country sometimes

Re: What food do you crave a lot but is hardest to get where you live?

I'll definitely have to try it. I don't have to look hard, AT ALL, to find condensed milk.

But, geez, where am I gonna find the WATER to boil the can in?????????????????

Originally Posted by sokker

Good chicken.. we don't have KFC in my country, and I've heard good things about Nando's too.. but needless to say, we don't have that either Oh, and it's not food.. but I do wish we had Starbucks here. I hate my country sometimes

Well, don't "look at" KFC if you want *good* chicken, either. Just curious, what country are you in?

In the USA, Popeye's Chicken beats the snot out of KFC...and, in Canada, Mary Brown's Chicken beats the snot out of both of those. Or at least is USED to when I had it eons ago. (A LOT of recipes, etc. can change in 28 & 1/2 years...)

That's EXACTLY the stuff, same brand and all, that I look for! Yeah, it's pretty spendy, but it's damn worth it. It really does NOT cost any more (per weight) than many of the candy bars do - actually I think less.

"Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking." -The Scarecrow, WIZARD OF OZ, 1939Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education, to under-performing schools: DROP DEAD.Make, for a man, a fire - and he'll be warm for a few hours. Set a man afire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying. - Terry Pratchett

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They have a picture of the chicken there. Really it's one I always try to get. Woodfired and it's not dry either... they do it just rest. Peruvian style is the best. For others in LA, that article mentions Zankou chicken... but out of the times I been to Zankou it was actually pretty disgusting.

There were other brands. I really can't eat sugary stuff anymore... my stomach doesn't handle it well. But every now and then I do go to an Argentine restaurant and have a dulce de leche crepe they make.

I agree with that as well about Peruvian chicken. I was commenting only about "fast food fried chicken" which certainly operates some incredibly low portion of the chicken totem. Also GianCarlo when are you going to give me the excellent Latino food guide to LA?

Re: What food do you crave a lot but is hardest to get where you live?

^I was corrected in post comment, the question mark was because I wasn't sure if Tandoori was the claypot style or not. My bad. I know for sure I've had both and both were good, though. Is chicken tika the claypot style?

Re: What food do you crave a lot but is hardest to get where you live?

A tikka is a cube, often of meat. It can be cooked in different ways, in a tandoor, on a barbecue, in a pot or smothered in a claypot.

Somali Ostrich

The worst thing...is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments. As terrible as these catastrophes would be for us, they can be repaired in a few generations. The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.--e.o. wilson